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Provisional status is not favorable for Karabakh
17-03-2007 13:54:10 - KarabakhOpen
A provisional status is dangerous for all the countries of the region.
Anything that stopped halfway may reproduce, said Major-General Vitaly
Balasanyan, former NKR deputy minister of defense.
After the meeting in Geneva the Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk
Group Merzlyakov stated that two main issues are under consideration:
pullout of Armenian force from the liberated territories and a
provisional status of Karabakh.
Balasanyan said the status of Karabakh should be the central issue of
the talks. `Armenia and Azerbaijan must sign a peace agreement. We
cannot pretend there was no war. On the contrary, there must be a
clear evaluation who started the war, who won, who lost, who is
responsible for human lives and damage, and how it should be
contributed.
I do not think there is point in discussing the return of territories.
Why is Karabakh viewed within the borders of the former
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region? These borders were drawn in the
soviet period. Do we want to bring back those times? If yes, let us
rebuild Berlin wall,' said the general.
He warned that imposing a status on the people of Karabakh may produce
unexpected consequences. `We are for a peace settlement and we follow
attentively the ongoing processes. But if they try to impose a status
on us like in 1990, which will break our right to live, people will
emerge who will rise for armed struggle,' Balasanyan said.
17-03-2007 13:54:10 - KarabakhOpen
A provisional status is dangerous for all the countries of the region.
Anything that stopped halfway may reproduce, said Major-General Vitaly
Balasanyan, former NKR deputy minister of defense.
After the meeting in Geneva the Russian co-chair of the OSCE Minsk
Group Merzlyakov stated that two main issues are under consideration:
pullout of Armenian force from the liberated territories and a
provisional status of Karabakh.
Balasanyan said the status of Karabakh should be the central issue of
the talks. `Armenia and Azerbaijan must sign a peace agreement. We
cannot pretend there was no war. On the contrary, there must be a
clear evaluation who started the war, who won, who lost, who is
responsible for human lives and damage, and how it should be
contributed.
I do not think there is point in discussing the return of territories.
Why is Karabakh viewed within the borders of the former
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region? These borders were drawn in the
soviet period. Do we want to bring back those times? If yes, let us
rebuild Berlin wall,' said the general.
He warned that imposing a status on the people of Karabakh may produce
unexpected consequences. `We are for a peace settlement and we follow
attentively the ongoing processes. But if they try to impose a status
on us like in 1990, which will break our right to live, people will
emerge who will rise for armed struggle,' Balasanyan said.